Susan L. Saidman, PhD is an expert and key contributor to maintaining the highest standards of laboratory testing and patient care in the subspecialty practice of immunogenetics and histocompatibility at Mass General Pathology.

Dr. Saidman received her PhD in Experimental Pathology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1990, and subsequently completed a two year post-doctoral fellowship in the Histocompatibility laboratory there. She joined the staff at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1992 as Director of the Histocompatibility Lab of the Blood Transfusion Service. Dr. Saidman has been certified by the American Board of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ABHI) since 1994 and has over 30 years of experience in the field. She is on the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital Blood Transfusion Service, is a member of the Massachusetts General Hospital Transplant Center, and serves on the Transplant Center oversight committee. Outside Mass General, she is a board member of the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI).